About Us
The DeKalb Initiative for Children and Families, Inc. (DICF) is a broad-based collaborative serving as the planning body for efforts in DeKalb County around children and family issues. DICF serves as a convener of public and private agencies and community advocates interested in improving life in DeKalb County. DICF also serves as a fiscal agent for entities seeking grant funding.
Strengthening Families & Individuals Council
This council was created to address the issues that affect families and individuals. This is an initiative based on the understanding that keeping children safe depends on strong families and that strong families depend on connections with a broad range of people, organizations, and community institutions. The Strengthening Family and Individuals Council’s purpose is to promote, protect, and strengthen families. The council is made up of DICF Collaborative members and public agencies to assist families who are high-risk. The council seeks to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors related to child abuse and neglect and poverty. The council will focus on providing program/activities to reduce problem behaviors and to increase parenting skills.
Youth Council
The council addresses all issues that influence the youth in our communities: drugs, violence, and social issues. Partnerships with other local youth organizations assist in increasing school performance and achievement.
About Georgia Family Connection
Georgia Family Connection is the only statewide network of its kind in the country with partners in all 159 counties working toward measurably better outcomes for our children, families, and communities. This gives us a unique vantage point—not only to see the big picture—but also to operate effectively at a local level.
We disentangle the mess of barriers, service gaps, and inefficiencies obscuring progress for our most vulnerable families. We do that by connecting our partners to resources, helping coordinate and manage efforts, and empowering our communities to craft local solutions based on local decisions.
Georgia Family Connection Partnership (GaFCP) represents and promotes Georgia Family Connection’s work, provides expertise in planning and governance, administers the state-appropriated funds for the local Collaboratives, sets standards of excellence, and helps Collaboratives evaluate their progress.
The state’s designated KIDS COUNT grantee, GaFCP also provides state agencies and policymakers with current, reliable data they need to inform decisions about improving conditions for the communities they serve.
Our Work
At Georgia Family Connection, we work to ensure that all children are healthy, primed for school, and succeed when they get there; families are stable, self-sufficient, and productive; and communities are vibrant, robust, and thriving.
None of these result areas stand in isolation. They overlap. By collaborating across sectors to address them, we nurture children and families who thrive in vibrant communities—everywhere. Because we work toward measurably better outcomes for everyone.
